Peter Derow (Paperback)

Please note that the content of this book primarily consists of articles available from Wikipedia or other free sources online. Peter Sidney Derow (11 April 1944, Newport, Rhode Island - 9 December 2006, Oxford, England), MA, PhD was Hody Fellow and Tutor in Ancient History at Wadham College, Oxford and University Lecturer in Ancient History from 1977 to 2006. As a scholar he was most noted for his work on Hellenistic and Roman Republican history and epigraphy, particularly on the histories of Polybius. Derow obtained his secondary education at The Roxbury Latin School in West Roxbury Massachusetts. After an A.B. degree at Amherst (with Peter K. Marshall), he read for Greats as a second B.A. degree at Oxford in 1965-1967, achieving a First. At Oxford he was taught by, among others, W. G. (George) Forrest, who was a lasting influence.